Nodes are the most important part of Roadiz CMS. They are your content which can
be shaped as you want according to your node-types definitions.
A node can be a blog-post, a content page, a photo gallery, even a shop product.
This is why we called it “Node”, it’s an abstract data container interconnected with
other node in a tree.

Each node has a place in your website, that’s why we chose to arrange your content
in a tree-shaped way. It’s intuitive and it works the same as your computer files.

To edit a node’ content, simply click on it.

To move a node across your tree, drag & drop using its handle (round or rombus shape). You can drop a node after or before an other one. You can also drop inside just by moving your mouse a bit on the right, you should see the node shadow to shift right.

Other actions are available from each node’ contextual menu. Right click on the node or click on the arrow at the right when you pass your mouse over.

“Add a child node” button, which is located at the top of each node’ contextual menu.

To add a blank node to your node-tree, you will need to choose your location. In Roadiz
you can add a content at the root of your tree or choose a “parent-node”. In both cases
you will be asked to choose a node-type and a node-name before creating your node.

Node name is the global identifier for your node. It must be unique and won’t change from one translation to an other. It can be changed later except if your developer locked it up. Node name is usually used to build your pages URL.

Node-type defines what fields will be available in your content. Choose well as you won’t be able to change it later, you ’ll have to delete and recreate an other node.

Parameters are global data such as your node name. They are used for managing your node
visibility according to each user role and node back-office’ settings. This section should
not be used so often as parameters will be set once by your developer.

When a node is defined as a stack, Tree becomes its default view. You can set the
default ordering in the Edit tab. And node-types set as publishable will display their publication date before its name.

Tree view becomes very interesting if you have many many children nodes, when you have blog posts
or portfolio projects for example.

Then you can add stack type in Edit tab to make some handy
quick-add buttons to this view.

During its lifecycle, every nodes can have a different publication status.
When you create a new content, it will be automatically set as Draft by Roadiz so that
you can edit it without bothering your visitors and sharing unfinished work.

As unpublished nodes are not viewable for anonymous visitors, Roadiz allows backend users to preview them
using a dedicated entry point called preview.php, yes this is not very original. We decided to create
a different entry point not to share the same URL with your public website as it could create confusing errors if your
website is hosted behing a reverse proxy engine.

For example, if your my-news page is not published yet, connecting to http://mywebsite.com/my-news will lead
to a 404 page for your anonymous visitors, as well as you too. If you want to preview it, you’ll have to connect to
http://mywebsite.com/preview.php/my-news. This URL will only allow authentified backend users, other people will
be blocked.